Japanese judoka Tatsuru Saito's bid to emulate his father by winning Olympic gold, and likely defeating eventual gold medalist Teddy Riner of France along the way, ended early at the Paris Olympics on Friday.Had the 22-year-old Saito won the men's over-100-kilogram class, he would have joined his late father Hitoshi among the ranks of Japanese Olympic judo gold medalists. Instead, he lost his match for bronze against Uzbekistan's Alisher Yusupov, leaving him off the podium on the final day of individual judo competition in Paris.Hitoshi, a winner of back-to-back Olympic titles in 1984 and 1…READ FULL ARTICLE
